Best Books About Fate vs Free Will That Actually Commit
Plenty of novels raise the question. These pick a position and pay for it structurally.
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1. Life After Life
by Kate Atkinson
Ursula dies and restarts, over and over, with the changes accumulating.
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2. TURN On this site
by Simran Mehta
The chapters keep arriving already finished. The question is whether the book is recording his life or deciding it.
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3. Slaughterhouse-Five
by Kurt Vonnegut
Unstuck in time, and firmly on the side of determinism. So it goes.
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4. Replay
by Ken Grimwood
The same twenty-five years lived repeatedly by a man who keeps his memories.
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5. The Midnight Library
by Matt Haig
The gentlest version of the argument, and the most widely read.